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Lot 129

WILDE (OSCAR)
The Picture of Dorian Gray [in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine]

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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WILDE (OSCAR)

The Picture of Dorian Gray [in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine], 20-pages of advertisements (including 16 for Ward and Lock), publisher's printed wrappers in red and black (split at lower joint, loss to date at foot of spine) [Mason 81], 8vo, Ward, Lock and Co., July, 1890

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The first appearance of Dorian Gray, containing thirteen chapters. The first edition in book form had an additional six chapters and was published by Ward, Lock in 1891. The Lippincott appearance was published simultaneously in London (as here, copies of which are not recorded in ABPC) and in Philadelphia (Mason 82).

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